Screenplay: Terry Jones
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Terry Jones. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle
Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle
Plot TV series (1969-1974). 4 Seasons. 45 Episodes. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (also known as "Flying Circus", "MPFC" or just "Monty Python" during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC...
8.4
12K votes
8.4
12K votes
Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones
Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle
Plot The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some...
7.9
111K votes
7.9
111K votes
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
1982 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Hughes · Ian MacNaughton
Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Carol Cleveland
Plot A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.
7.9
2K votes
7.9
2K votes
Monty Python: International Philosophy (S)
1972 · Movie · 4 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones
Cast John Cleese · Eric Idle · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin
Plot The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Monty Python's Personal Best (TV Miniseries)
2006 · Series · 360 min. · United States
Direction Harry K. Garvin
Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam
Plot TV Miniseries (2006). 6 Episodes. Each episode showcases the contributions of a particular Monty Python member. The five surviving members (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John...
7.5
175 votes
7.5
175 votes
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam
Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle
Plot Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do...
7.4
28K votes
7.4
28K votes
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam
Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam
Plot The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't...
7.4
46K votes
7.4
46K votes
Labyrinth
1986 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jim Henson
Cast Jennifer Connelly · David Bowie · David Goelz · Toby Froud
Plot 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.
7.2
31K votes
7.2
31K votes
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1971 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ian MacNaughton
Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones
Plot Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first...
7.2
86 votes
7.2
86 votes
Monty Python And Now For Something Completely Different
1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ian MacNaughton
Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle
Plot A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
Boom Bust Boom
2015 · Documentary · 74 min. · Netherlands
Direction Bill Jones · Terry Jones · Ben Timlett
Plot Terry Jones guides us through the history and the nature of the economic boom-bust cycle and why people repeatedly ignore it to their sorrow.
6.8
68 votes
6.8
68 votes
Ripping Yarns (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 270 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jim Franklin · Alan J.W. Bell · Terry Hughes
Cast Michael Palin · Charles McKeown · David Griffin · Michael Stainton
Plot TV Series (1976-1979). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Wildly funny series featuring excellent writing by Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Palin is well cast in different roles as...
6.5
48 votes
6.5
48 votes
Erik the Viking
1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones
Cast Tim Robbins · Mickey Rooney · John Cleese · Terry Jones
Plot Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally...
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes
The Wind in the Willows
1996 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones
Cast Steve Coogan · Eric Idle · Terry Jones · Antony Sher
Plot Mole is startled as machinery starts tearing up the field where his burrow is. He and his friend Rat go to see Toad, the lord of the manor, only to...
5.7
336 votes
5.7
336 votes
Consuming Passions
1988 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Giles Foster
Cast Tyler Butterworth · Jonathan Pryce · Freddie Jones · Vanessa Redgrave
Plot A tragic mishap at a chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets. The problem is that they want more!
5.0
37 votes
5.0
37 votes
Absolutely Anything
2015 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones
Cast Simon Pegg · Kate Beckinsale · Sanjeev Bhaskar · Rob Riggle
Plot ‘Sci-fi farce’ features Monty Python's Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John Cleese voicing aliens who are able to give humans the power to do ‘absolutely anything.’ The story...
4.8
3K votes
4.8
3K votes
Medieval Lives (TV Miniseries)
2004 · Documentary · 240 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nigel Miller
Cast Terry Jones
Plot Terry Jones hosts this series that looks at the real facts about the Middle Ages and its roots.
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Marty (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Race
Cast Marty Feldman · John Junkin · Tim Brooke-Taylor · Roland MacLeod
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The Frost Report (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Gilbert
Cast David Frost · Ronnie Parker · Ronnie Corbett · John Cleese
Plot A comedy show written and staring various comedy pioneers including comedians who would go on to form the Two Ronnies and Monty Python.
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Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python (TV)
1999 · Documentary · 125 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Jones · Elaine Shepherd
Cast Eddie Izzard · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle
Plot Host Eddie Izzard links together interviews with former Python members and other famous comedians to tell the story of one the most famous comedy troupes of the 20th century. Includes...
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